Ford's First Factory & the Birth of the Model T
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Completed in 1904, the Piquette Avenue Plant was the first factory Built by Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company.
Waymark Code: WM6GZX
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 06/03/2009
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In 1904, after just 1 year of operation, the board of the Ford Motor Company approved construction of a New England mill-style building, on this corner of Piquette and Beaubien Streets.
In 1907, in a room at the northwest corner of the third floor of the "Piquette Plant", Henry Ford and a small team of dedicated engineers developed the Model T, the car that would become the "Car of the Century".
The first production Model T was built at Piquette on September 27, 1908.
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Date of FIRST: 04/01/1904
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